2018 BOOTCAMP IN MARSEILLE

200 start-ups and mentors met for 1,5 days in the extraordinary location of Le Palais du Pharo to start the coaching relationships for the new mentees and wrap up the mentorships of the closing cohort. Tailored training and individual coaching sessions were complemented by business speed-dating across cohorts and extensive networking opportunities.

Start-up Fair open to the public!

For the first time, the Copernicus Accelerator Bootcamp opened its doors to a wider audience on 4 December 2018! EU Space Week visitors joined the new Start-up Fair to engage with mentees and mentors in exiting elevator pitches, live demos and match-making sessions: .

All mentees pitched their business ideas to the audience and expert juries consisting of mentors, investors, business angels and business support intermediaries, who nominated four winners of the pitching sessions:

Aschwin van der Woude, UrbanZee: AeroZee, a service that makes air quality information available to real estate agents.

In addition to the pitches, many teams of the 2017 Copernicus Accelerator programme displayed the progress and achievements they made since they started the Copernicus Accelerator Programme. via an exhibition. The variety – from a forest alert service over fertiliser and crop yield optimisation solutions to road monitoring – of the presented applications and products demonstrated the business potential of Copernicus for industry and business as well as the importance of the Copernicus Accelerator for the user uptake of Copernicus data among start-ups and industry in general.

A dedicated Copernicus ecosystem exhibition furthermore gave the start-ups the opportunity to exchange with other elements of the Copernicus Start-up Programme, the Copernicus Services and the Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS).

EXCLUSIVE BOOTCAMP FEATURES

What was on offer at the Bootcamp in Marseille, France, on 3-4 December 2018:

START OF INDIVIDUAL COACHING

EXCLUSIVE ATMOSPHERE

PROMOTION

ACCESS TO THE EO NETWORK

HANDS-ON TRAININGS

FEEDBACK FROM EXPERTS

GALLERY

Get an impression of the different sessions of the Copernicus Accelerator Bootcamp and get to know all mentors and mentees who joined the 2018 Bootcamp in Marseille, France!